Aubrey Plaza has fired back at the comedian who made a now-infamous racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend.
In the last few days, Tony has received a wave of backlash for referring to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”, as well as delivering jokes that played up to racist stereotypes about Jewish and Black people.
“As a Puerto Rican woman, I just wanted to very quickly respond to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, where most of my family is from,” Aubrey told her fellow guests at the Innovator Awards.
“Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn’t here to hear that disgusting remark, but if she was alive today, I think she would say, ‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go fuck yourself’. And yes, the Wall Street Journal can quote me on that.”
“I don’t want anybody making nasty jokes or stupid jokes, and probably he shouldn’t have been there, yeah,” the Republican presidential candidate added later in the interview.
